This just in from RFE/RL's news desk:
Russian state-run media behemoth Rossia Segodnya's interview with a former Ukrainian separatist leader was edited to remove references to his work in Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and chaos among the rebels, his interviewer says.
Igor Girkin, known as "Strelkov," said in the interview that he is an "FSB lieutenant colonel" and that rebel commanders in eastern Ukraine "were fighting with one another," according to a transcript published by interviewer Aleksandr Chalenko.
The redacted version of the interview published yesterday (December 1) by Rossia Segodnya omits both comments.
Chalenko said in a Facebook post that the text was edited by Girkin's press secretary and trimmed by Rossia Segodnya editors in a standard journalistic process.
Strelkov, who held various posts in rebel regions of eastern Ukraine, had said previously that he served in the FSB until March 2013.
Russia denies that it supports separatists in eastern Ukraine.
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has some more detailed information on the new Ukrainian cabinet:
The Ukrainian parliament has approved a new government to be headed by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
The proposed cabinet received a total of 288 votes from some 420 deputies in the Verkhovna Rada.
The approval comes five weeks after early parliamentary elections won by pro-Western parties.
Five political parties agreed last month to form a coalition government, which vows to pass an extensive program of reforms.
Yatsenyuk has served as prime minister since February, shortly after pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country.
The parliament voted earlier to reappoint Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, whose posts are selected by President Petro Poroshenko.
Yatsenyuk's government includes Finance Minister Natalya Yaresko, a U.S. national who previously worked at the State Department and who first received Ukrainian citizenship on December 2.
(with reporting by AP)